God-Learners != Mystics?

From: Michael Cule <mikec_at_room3b.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2000 13:17:23 +0100


In message <200006020827.BAA27364_at_chaosium.com>, The Glorantha Digest <owner-glorantha-digest_at_chaosium.com> writes
>
>>The God
>>Learners 'created' the different Otherworlds (as categories, that is,
>>not out of whole cloth, obviously) in order precisely to understand
>>each separately, not to understand the Other Side holistically, without
>>reductionism and categorisation.
>
> Quite true - the God Learners where the very opposite of
>mystics IMO, rather than ignoring the otherworld as much as possible
>like good mystics should, they categorised it, explored it,
>strip-mined it.
> Regards

I am willing to modify my previous statement. The God-Learners were *Failed* mystics...
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Michael Cule


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